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As good as Adobe Photoshop is, not everyone can afford to own a licensed version. Most of the Photoshop version out there in use are just pirated copies. But is it really that necessary? Unless you are running a million dollar enterprise or a graphics developer team I really don't see any good reason for having a Photoshop, especially when there are lot's of work around to any problem. Here I will be discussing some alternative approaches and softwares that can help you out from any Photoshop need with using Photoshop. 1. GIMP If you go on a search for a free alternative to Photoshop, this one will always be there in any list. And why not! GIMP is perfect in its own and there is a better version coming out very soon viz GIMP 3.0 Only problem GIMP has so far is it's inability to deal with high resolution. It's rather difficult to explain in words but I can give you an example of the problem. Say when you Open and image as a layer in your canvas and resize

If you are using WordPress chances are you are already aware of its power. One such power of the WordPress is to auto-mate things up. It's actually not WordPress but one of it's plugin. WPeMatico  let's you grab any RSS feed and post it as a separate post in your WordPress blog. Here's the step by step instruction to setup your automated WordPress blog. Please note that WPeMatico is really powerful plugin and not every site appreciates their content being copied. So leave necessary credits to the owners of the content you tend to post on your Blog. Step. 1: Upload WPeMatico Plugin in WordPress and activate it. Download from wordpress.org/plugins/wpematico Step. 2: Find the feed url. Go to any site you want the content from and open there feed url.  For example: example.com/feed Some times the feed url could be different like example.com/RSS or example.com/atom Step. 3: Once you confirm the feed url add new campaign. Step. 4: Add the feed ur

There are a number of ways to make a website or a blog. Be it Blogger, Tumblr, Wix but when it comes to professional web development one would always come back over and again to WordPress or any similar service like Joomla. But Joomla isn't all that popular now, it's the WordPress which own the Internet for now and why not! There are a number of advantages of WordPress, and I'm not talking about WordPress.com. There is a big difference in self-hosted and free WordPress sites. WordPress.com blogs are limited to a great extent, hence we stick to self hosted WordPress site. Oftentimes one give up the idea of building a self hosted WordPress site because hosting is not cheap and cheap ones are not reliable. Today we will be making a WordPress site with little to no efforts and on a reliable server as well. I will be using 000webhost for hosting my WordPress site. Step.1: Go to 000webhost from here . Sign up and leave your account there for a while. Step. 2: Register

If you run a business or a website Facebook is the best possible medium to sxpose it to the right audience. In order to do that you can either adviertise your website or use a page for its promotion. Anyways you will need a Facebook page. Following this little guide you will be able to create a Facebook page and make it popular to reach the right audience. I'm pretty sure you know how to make a Facebook page because it is not that difficult. You can skip this part if you already have a Facebook page. Step 1: To make a Facebook page go to Create Page . There are lots of categories as for what you page is about. Take a little time to perfectly categorize your page but even if you set it up in the wrong category it does not matter since the guys at Facebook update your category upon review. Step.2:Follow page tips to settle everything else related to your page. Step. 3: Once your page is active it's time for some quality content. Write some posts, upload some phot

Facebook has been the most popular social from a really long time now. Back in the days of MySpace and Orkut it had competition, but now when we talk about a "Social Network" the first thing that hits your head is Facebook, unless you are from China or Japan maybe. Since everyone out there must be using Facebook, or majority is, Facebook becomes the best possible way for reaching a targeted audience. Now there are multiple ways you can achieve your goals and the idea of this post is to clear up the fog for you and decide what's best for you. Let me tell you a little secret. Facebook Ads are really really "cheap". Not in quality but in price. So without giving it any other thought if you can invest a little in promoting your valuable content, prefer Facebook over Adsense or Bing Ads. What all options for marketing are available on Facebook? Facebook Ads carry a lot of variety. You can promote not only your websites and pages but also your individual p

Oh you have heard of them I'm pretty sure, you just are not sure whether they are good for you or not. I am talking about the unholy ways of generating traffic to your blog or website. By unholy I am referring to the means that most of the top blogs or websites use and would still deny that they would do anything such cheap. Of course is doesn't matter once you have made up a position, then you can gladly give up such practices. But everybody has to start from somewhere, and whether or not they admit, all of the blogs and websites have once in their life time would have done these practices to improve traffic to their site. Let's hit the points directly and stop all these side talks. 1. Ads. Simply, ads. Yea you would say I don't have a big budget to afford fancy ad networks. I never said you need a budget. All you need is an advertisers account. Now I am not here to share direct links to anything, you have the Internet and you can pretty much search for any

Do you find it frustrating that there is no pause or stop button right next to where the Windows show the update progress? Follow these steps to stop the ongoing Windows download. Step 1: Open Run(WINDOWS KEY + R) and type services.msc and press enter. Step 2: Locate Windows Update service and double click it to open. Step 3: From what appears next you can stop, pause  the on going Windows update and also prevent Windows from updating itself.

This is meant for anyone who wishes to use font awesome and is totally unaware of its working. Font Awesome is a set of icon vector graphics which can be used with CSS of your choice. First of all we need to know what all icons it contains. For this you can check the font awesome cheatsheet at  fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/ Usage: Step 1: Include the font awesome in your web page of theme by adding  <link rel= "stylesheet" href= "path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"/ > to the <head> section. Step. 2: Call the font by its class from Cheatsheet. for example:  <i class= "fa fa-heart" ></i> will result in  That's it. You can explore more options at  fontawesome.io/examples/  and make the best out of it.

As much as the ad placement matters for maximum exposure, the site design play an important role as well. You can check out  How to place Adsense ads for maximum exposure and not annoy your audience  and today we will change our site's design to comply with ads and make them look better. I am using CODA Basic Theme . You can also learn how to make your own Blogger template from Make your own Blogger theme that you can sell . Now back to topic, given that we are using default ad placement from the Blogger menu, we also need to place some ads our self. Like the 900x270 billboard cannot be placed by default. You need to create the Ad unit in the Adsense and place the ad code above the main-post and sidebar. In CODA Themes, the ideal placement is just at the starting of the container division as shown. Now the ads you place yourself are usually alright. But what about the ads that appear by enabling the ad setting? They are usually the responsive ad units. To make the best out o

As much are the ads important for us, they tend to annoy our visitors sometimes. Like I myself hate the pop ups and not being able to see the actual content I visit some site for. Now if you are using Adsense, your ads probably are already visitor friendly. Adsense don't use annoying pop-ups and the layover ads for mobiles are easily identifiable and not much of a pain. Earning through ads totally relies on exposure of your ads to your audience. We maximize the exposure of ads and that too in a decent way. To do this, I'm assuming you are on responsive site. If you are unaware of the types of ad units Adsense provide, I would suggest you to take a look again. Maximum exposure can be achieved by using one bill board, one links ads, one sidebar ad and one post ad. To place the BIll Board Ad unit, use following CSS .adsenseBillboard{ margin: auto; width: 970px; height: 270px; } and place your ad in the defined class as follows <div class='adsense

BSNL ping fix, please follow this link :www.shiftescape.com/2017/03/fixed-dota2-ping-for-bsnl-users.html . If you are experiencing packet loss in DOTA2 ever since it got "the big update" you might have to address the following solutions. I have no idea as for what actually did the trick for me since I did everything I could and possibly this could work for you. Firstly you have to make sure it's the problem at your end and not your ISP. Once sure that there is no problem with your Internet you need to check your connection with the DOTA servers. Now the trick here is to check your connection in different servers. To do so simply connect to any other server than the one you have problem in. Even if the ping is high. Not too high though. Little explanation here. Ping and Packet Loss are two entirely different things. You could have good ping but still get massive packet loss. This is because Ping is rather a small transfer of data but when it comes to packet loss